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In 1930, following their short film triumph UN CHEIN ANDALOU, Bunuel and Dali created an hour long avant garde tour de force that¹s both an aesthetic avalanche of consummate boldness and a withering attack on a society that elevates pious morality over sexual freedom. As scorpions battle, partisans (led by famed surrealist painter Max Ernst) stumble and the varied forces of middle-class righteousness repeatedly interrupt two neurotic lovers, L¹AGE D¹OR delivers a gleeful fever dream of Freudian unease, bizarre humor and shocking imagery that once experienced cannot be forgotten. Skewering everything from Catholic piety to sexual fetishism, the film provoked riots, was denounced by Mussolini¹s ambassador, earned its backer a threat of excommunication and was banned by the French Police all within two weeks of its release.
A cherished inspiration for three decades of filmmakers from Hitchcock to David Lynch, Fellini to Monty Python, ready or not, this justifiably lionized and excoriated masterpiece of 20th century cinema is now available on DVD to challenge, intoxicate, arouse, unnerve, amuse and galvanize the uninitiated for generations to come. Whether parody or polemic, artistic experiment or lurid shaggy-dog charade, L¹AGE D¹OR "reassures us that as long as we have eyes, we will still be susceptible to shock" (New York Times)
- NTSC Region 1
- French with English Subtitles
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